Date/Time
Date(s) - 30 Jan 2015
5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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MARINA BROWNLEE
Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature.
Princeton University
January 30, 5pm Cherpack Seminar Room, Williams Hall, 5th Floor
“Interruption and Distraction — Epistemology in the Cavallero Zifar”
Interruption is an essential feature of the 14th-century Cavallero Zifar–a way of highlighting its stunningly multicultural nature and its encyclopedic reach–as well as its skepticism. This seminal text provides an extended thought experiment revealing a series of programmatic–and epistemologically meaningful–distractions.
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